Sergio Vodanović was a lawyer, journalist, dramatist and television writer from Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 of Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n ancestry. His works were critical of corruption and social structures.

He studied theater at Columbia

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 and Yale

Yale University

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 Universities. He was professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two Pontifical Universities in the country, along with the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. It is also one of Chile's oldest universities and...

 and the Universidad de Concepción

Universidad de Concepción

The University of Concepción , also known for its acronym UdeC, is one of the most prestigious universities in Chile. It is the third oldest university in the country, and it is part of the Council of Rectors. It was the first University founded in the South of Chile, and the first to become a...

.

Work as a Playwright

Born in Split, Croatia in 1926. Shortly after he moved to Chile. His first works were light comedies acted by commercial theater companies. In 1959, Vodanović, began to write for the university theaters, leading to a change in style. He adopted a neorealistic

Neorealism (art)

In art, neorealism was established by the ex-Camden Town Group painters Charles Ginner and Harold Gilman at the beginning of World War I. They set out to explore the spirit of their age through the shapes and colours of daily life...

 style, critically representing diverse aspects of the socio-political reality of his country through drama and comedy. His first such was the social drama Deja que los perros ladren, which analyzed from a social and psychological point of view the phenomenon of corruption in the Chilean middle-class. Viña, subtitled Tres comedias en traje de baño ("Three comedies in a bathing suit"), satirically portrayed the upper class's relationship with other classes of society.

Work as a Screenwriter

In 1982, he wrote a miniseries for Canal 13

Canal 13 (Chile)

Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...

 entitled Una familia feliz. It was not until 1984, when his first telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 Los títeres

Los títeres

"Los Títeres" is a Chilean telenovela. Its screenplay was written by Chilean author Sergio Vodanovic, and it was directed by Oscar Rodríguez. The story is adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play The Visit.-Plot:...

aired that he became known as a screenwriter. His television series were commercially successful while also intellectual, carefully disguising references to the Chilean socio-political context of the 1980s.

Plays

• El príncipe azul (1947)
• Mi mujer necesita marido (1953)
• La cigueña también espera (1955)
• El delantal blanco (1956)
• Deja que los perros ladren (1959)
• Viña: Tres comedias en traje de baño (1964)
• Los fugitivos (1965)
• Perdón, estamos en guerra (1966).
• Nos tomamos la Universidad (1969)
• Igual que antes (1972)
• Nosotros, los de entonces (1974)
• La gente como nosotros (1977)
• Cuántos años tiene un día (1978)
• La mar estaba serena (1982)
• El gordo y el flaco (1992)
• Girasol (2000)

Telenovelas

• Los títeres
  Los títeres
  "Los Títeres" is a Chilean telenovela. Its screenplay was written by Chilean author Sergio Vodanovic, and it was directed by Oscar Rodríguez. The story is adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play The Visit.-Plot:...
  
  (1984)
• Secreto de familia (1986)
• La intrusa (1989)
• Villa Nápoli (1991)
• Doble juego (1993)